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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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For target on Azure (ADLS) make target path configurable

For ADLS target the current default is objectkey = <subscription name>/<table name>/<file name>. If there are tables with the same name (from different schemas) included into the same subscription, then we get a naming conflict. ...
about 2 hours ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

DDL Awareness for MySQL

After a DDL change occurs and when data is extracted from MySQL binlogs at a later date, the subscription fails due to a mismatch of the structure in the binlog and the current structure available in the metadata. Due to this, the subscription/rep...
about 5 hours ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Enable WCA4Z to install and operate without GPU requirements for non-LLM use cases and troubleshooting scenarios.

WCA4Z currently has a hard dependency on GPU availability. The Watsonxaiifm component fails to install when GPUs are not present, which subsequently prevents a complete installation of WCABase and WCA4Z. GPU resources represent a substantial infra...

Enhancing Performance and Latency metrics with append when you relog to MC

Useful to cross verify the latency and performance , also to keep an historical data for the benchmark , also sending the data to datadog, splunk, appdynamics or grafana these tools are being used by many clients and it will be useful to send our ...
9 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Provide kafka password encryption in kafkaproducer.properties

Plan text password no longer acceptable in enterprise environment. It is flag to have vulnerability and not compliance with audit requirement.
11 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Increase the column size limit for Derived columns

In our Testing we found the size limitation for the Derived column. Issue: Columns exceeding 1024 characters fail when processed in derived expressions. Column Details: FIELD_VALUE VARCHAR(2000) IBM : TS020837588 Error Messages: · `CHC0321W` Warni...
15 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

IBM i 7.6 is pending support testing for CDC

The latest version of IBM i has not yet been tested or officially supported for IBM CDC. Our customer requires confirmation on compatibility and would like to know the estimated timeline (ETA) for testing.
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

The PL/I macro names should be referable in WCA4Z Understand

When preprocessing PL/I source code in WCA4Z Understand(ADDI), macros are visualized in their expanded state, which makes it impossible to identify the original macro names in Application Discovery (AD)Analyze Client. To improve usability for appl...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Under review

Avoid to hard code credentials in tls.properties file to use encryption profile.

As per discussion with IBM support team, we need to hard code keystore and trust store password in tls.properties file to use encryption profile with "REQUIRED" and "ALWAYS" options mentioned in IBM documentation - Adding an encryption profile on ...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review